The Benny Hill theme tune was a pretty unfortunate choice of background music, not sure if that's the impression they wanted to make (maybe it was, not sure).
Geez, indeed poor choice. I muted it first and kept listening to my deephouse podcast :)
Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]
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#12To be completely fair, you can show me almost anything with Benny Hill music in the background and I will enjoy it ;) Anybody knows if these 3 cameras on the right are the only ones used by the auto pilot?
No. The system uses 8 cameras. Three forward facing (narrow, wide, standard), two rear facing sides (the two showed here), one rear, and two side cameras.
Thanks. makes sense, and I guess makes easier to implement some kind of depth perception.
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#13best part at end: you can save time by exiting before the car parks itself.
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#14Impressive to watch. The Tesla drives quite politely, but not annoyingly so (read that as impeding traffic). It actually stopped for the joggers who wasn't actually in the road, but very close. It also waited for a bicyclist on the right to turn left in front of the car. Looks pretty promising, not bad, especially since the trend in software (and sensors) is to get better over time.
On perfectly marked roads, in fair weather, with no bad behaviour seen from other drivers in the video. Impressive, but the technology has a long way to go yet before it can replace human drivers.
I do not understand why the focus on self driving is so much on the whole trip.
90 - 95% of the time I am driving long stretches, I spend on highways. No problem if only that part would be done selfdriving. Those few minutes in busy town centers I do not mind to do myself. No problem of driving short stretches (10 - 15 min) either.
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#15Jaw dropping.
I as a European born in a not so fortunate part of Europe (EE) have to really admire America. Americans deliver. Cocky europeans keep on whining how much culture and quality of life they have but at the end of the day they are just insecure about themselves.
1/5 of my countrymen, more than a 1m people escaped from communism to this great country.
* DISCLAIMER : I am aware it's not all wine and roses ;)
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#16So it appears it's reading the road signs? I see it stops on the intersection with a stop sign where's no traffic lights. But what if the sign is damaged or removed? The car will go straight without stopping?
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#17Impressive to watch. The Tesla drives quite politely, but not annoyingly so (read that as impeding traffic). It actually stopped for the joggers who wasn't actually in the road, but very close. It also waited for a bicyclist on the right to turn left in front of the car. Looks pretty promising, not bad, especially since the trend in software (and sensors) is to get better over time.
This is pretty impressive. Still, at 00:54, getting a closer look at the female runners? Someone following could have gotten caught out if driving too close / playing Pokemon.
A human driver (well, at least myself) would simply have lifted the foot off the accelerator somewhat and drifted closer to the centre line when passing - seeing as there was no oncoming traffic.
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#18Couple spots where I think an inattentive driver could have easily rear-ended the car. ~0:55 mark is a prime example.
I understand that whether the driver was paying attention or not, he or she would be at fault, I'm just pointing it out.
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#19Impressive to watch. The Tesla drives quite politely, but not annoyingly so (read that as impeding traffic). It actually stopped for the joggers who wasn't actually in the road, but very close. It also waited for a bicyclist on the right to turn left in front of the car. Looks pretty promising, not bad, especially since the trend in software (and sensors) is to get better over time.
On perfectly marked roads, in fair weather, with no bad behaviour seen from other drivers in the video. Impressive, but the technology has a long way to go yet before it can replace human drivers.
A real convincing promo video would be in stormy weather with angry, unpredictable drivers and random jaywalking kids.
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#20I don't know about other countries, but at least in the Netherlands the Benny Hill song is used mainly in videos to ridicule the subject. I remember when funny 'Home Videos' were a thing on TV (before cats took over on the interweb) this song was used in about 90% of them. So to me, using this song in something as serious as a self driving car demonstration is pretty weird.
This song is also often used in a recurring absurd segment in cartoons when some people are running after each other and they go into / come out of random doors in a hallway.